Xubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

The display dialog has been updated, multiple dispays can now be arranged by drag and drop;

The power manager can now control the keyboard-backlight and features a new panel plugin, which shows the battery’s status, other connected devices with batteries and controls the display’s backlight brightness;

Xubuntu minimal install available – information on installation and testing will follow shortly;

Inxi, a tool to gather system information, is now included by default;

To allow users to use pkexec for selected applications instead of gksu(do), appropriate profiles are now included for Thunar and Mousepad;

The display dialog has been updated, multiple dispays can now be arranged by drag and drop;

The themes now support Gtk3.12;

The alt-tab dialog can now be clicked with the mouse to select a window;

Setting-related menu items earlier available only under Settings manager are now shown and searchable in Whiskermenu;

Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Beta 1

For Lubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn beta 1 there's no changelog available - the wiki page mentions that the "Lubuntu development is currently focused on the transition away from GTK+ to the Qt framework. This is not stable enough for everyday use, so the focus this version is on fixing bugs". For now, Lubuntu 14.10 beta 1 didn't switch LXQt yet.

It's also important to mention that there are no PPC images due to a lack of official testing.

All the Ubuntu 14.10 beta 1 flavors include Xorg server 1.15.1, Mesa 10.2.6 and the 3.15.0.6 Ubuntu Linux Kernel, based on the upstream 3.15 Linux kernel which includes mixed mode UEFI support as well as improvements to suspend and resume times and more.